Baseball Editorial

Baseball has been quite the sport over the last year. There was the Cubs v the Phillies with astounding scores of 26-23, making that the highest scored baseball game that this nations eyes have ever laid eyes on. If there is one game though that shook the very foundations of what we have seen in this country’s favorite pas-time sport it would be the Washington Senators v the New York Giants. Shoo, what a game am I right? The Washing-ton senators, first time ever in the world series going up against the thought to be best team in the nation, lots of twists and curves in this crazy game. Started off like most others sure, Giants up in the 8th inning of the game 3-1, but that’s when things started getting real exciting. Thanks to a slight f luke of judgement by Fred Lindstrom the Senators were able to get two points and catch back up. Things kept holding solid for a while, all the way until a 12th inning, game looked like it was never going to end when Muddy Ruel hit a f lyball right into a towering popup that was there for marking fouls. The catcher immeaditely jumped up and took off his mask to try and catch the ball. It was going to be out of bounds but then wind almost as if by god himself, shifted, which put the ball back in bounds. The best part though I think is that the catch-er moved to catch the ball but actually tripped over his very own mask he had put down! Causing him to catch and drop the ball ending him with an error by the refs.

A couple batters later, not much had changed and the senators had two runners on bases, Earl Mckneely hit the ball hard to the third baseman, once again Fred Lind-strom, somehow managed to miss the ball as it bounced over head once again, al-lowing just enough time for both baseman of the Washington senators to run home, winning them the game. Absolutely crazy really, Washingtons first and only world series title won by mostly two bad hops of a ball. That’s what makes baseball so loved though, incredibly intense and you can re-ally never know what will happen.

Walter Perry Johnson, pitcher for the senators.

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The Scopes trial, also known as the “Monkey” Trial was a trial of a Tennes-see school teacher that was teaching evolution in school, which was illegal, and it was a big deal because it brought to light the debate of religion versus science. The people involved in the Monkey trial were the Tennessee school teacher John Scopes, who was teaching evolution in school even though it had been outlawed for a long time by the Butler Act. The two other major people in the trial were the defense attorney Clarence Darrow and the prosecution, three time presidential candidate William Jennings Bryan. Bryan claimed to be a religion expert and took the side of religion while Darrow took the side of evolution. The trial took place on July 21st 1925 in Tennessee.

. What happened that caused the trial to happen is the ACLU, American Civil Liberties Union, offered to defend anyone accused of teaching evolution, and a local business man from Dayton, Tennessee came to the ACLU and said that a trial of this sort would bring much needed publicity to Dayton. The business man called high school teacher John Scopes and approached him with the idea of him being arrested to bring publicity to their town, he agreed. The reason for the trial was for his town to gain publicity and to bring this debate to the national scale. Scopes was found guilty but the verdict was overturned due to a technicality and he was never tried again.

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Woman’s rights, two words that have carried a lot of weight these last few years, especially for the ladies who were right out there fight-ing there hardest for what they thought should be rightfully theirs, as it was. Not very many of you might have heard her name compared to Susan B Anthony or Elizabeth Stanton, but we had the amazing chance to hear from Jessebell Finley. She was apart of the group that would stand outside the whitehouse day to day picketing and would not be silenced. “There were days when we felt like we just shouldn’t keep going, and give up, but we knew we had to, for the sake of every womans future.” She described the days of picketing exciting but also very dangerous and tedious as sometimes people would throw rotten fruit or spit at them, disapproving of their acts. Day in and day out they would stand there bracing the weather or whatever other harsh things came their way. Many times they were arrested or forcibly kicked off the street by the police, though this typically didn’t last as the police never really had a cause to arrest them, they were merely asserting one of their rights in the bill of rights, freedom to protest, there wasn’t all that much the police could do.

. “Then that fateful day came, they arrested us under the supposed ‘obstruction of traffic’ and took us into the jail.” Jessebell described the times in the jail as some of the hardest she had ever been through, “inhumane, unjust, and downright uncivilized, it felt like we were just a bunch of pigs ready to slaughter.” Even in the jail though Jeesebell kept her strength and determination up as she followed in the hunger strike, not letting even the very needs of her body keep her from what she knew was hers. Kept there for a fair bit of time, slowly forgetting about the light of the outside world, one day though they were retrieved and taken straight to the hospital, there picketing, protesting, striking. It had finally paid off, the president finally stated that he was going to address the issue of womans rights and passed a law that would give them their rights.

votes were one of the many rights they desired.

protests were often seen during these times.

Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, I’d like to talk to you today about the trial of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Venzetti. Yea, they most likely murdered someone, but ever heard of rights? I mean seriously, they have rights, whether or not they were born in America. I say that it was a mistrial and they should’ve been tried again, not executed in 1927, and if they were going to execute them, at least not make them wait 7 years since their crime. I also find it unfair that just because they were Italian immigrants who had subscribed to an anarchist magazine, they were treated unfairly in the legal system. Had it been two Americans, they would’ve more than likely been treated fairly and their rights wouldn’t have been violated. That is all I have to say. Sincerely, John McCutchen, Irish immigrant

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